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Best MySQL DigitalOcean Performance – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Scalegrid

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. MySQL on DigitalOcean is a natural fit, but what’s the best way to deploy your cloud database? In this benchmark, we compare equivalent plan sizes between ScaleGrid MySQL on DigitalOcean and DigitalOcean Managed Databases for MySQL.

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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

WordPress also benefited from and popularized MySQL, introducing the LAMP stack – and open source – to an audience that might never have touched a database before or had any intro to open source. MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000.

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Update Percona Monitoring and Management Agent Settings for Already-Added Instances

Percona

Once inside, login to the PostgreSQL database (that’s where PMM keeps some of the settings): psql -U pmm-managed Switch to vertical output for the sake of readability, analog to using G in MySQL at the end of the query or running mysql with -E key, but in PostgreSQL, it is a setting: pmm-managed=> x Expanded display is on.

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Save Money in AWS RDS: Don’t Trust the Defaults

Percona

I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. The innodb_io_capacity_max parameter was set to 2000, so the hardware should be able to deliver that many IOPS without major issues. Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill?

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Why MySQL Could Be Slow With Large Tables

Percona

Some startups adopted MySQL in its early days such as Facebook, Uber, Pinterest, and many more, which are now big and successful companies that prove that MySQL can run on large databases and on heavily used sites. Some of them are: MySQL Cluster: MySQL NDB Cluster is an in-memory database clustering solution developed by Oracle for MySQL.

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Impact of Querying Table Information From information_schema

Percona

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. You can read some optimization examples in the official doc: [link]. Results for Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 While you are on 5.7, Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

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HammerDB v4.2 New Features Pt1: MariaDB Build and Test Example with the CLI

HammerDB

However, as the two databases diverged from a shared common codebase, this presented a challenge in that it was not possible to modify the workload for MySQL or MariaDB without also changing the other. Checking database library for MariaDB Error: failed to load mariatcl - couldn't load file "/home/HammerDB-4.2/lib/mariatcl0.1/libmariatcl0.1.so":

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